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Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management by Howard Tayler
Howard Tayler has been writing and drawing his daily webcomic Schlock Mercenary for over ten years now. In that time he's never missed an update. Ever. Not even when the building holding his servers literally exploded. He still updated the comic on time. And if thats not impressive enough, his comic is funny, smart, exciting, occasionally terrifying and always enjoyable...
Of course a 10-year archive can be intimidating to dive into for many. Which is where collected print volumes come in. This volume collects around 5 months worth of strips from '03 and serves up an easy introduction to the scifi mercenary company Tagon's Toughs and the titular Sgt. Schlock. He's the one who looks like a talking pile of goo on the cover. During this period the Tough's are under the command of the blue-skinned lady Col. Jevee Ceeta because of a government contract. Something that their regular commander, Captain Kaff Tagon (the blonde) is thrilled with. But as long as the checks keep clearing...
And as always remember Rule #37 of "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates". There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'...
Sunday Trade: 2 Minicomics
Sep. 26th, 2010 08:31 pm
Letters To An Absent Father by Mare Odomo and Girl Spy by John Allison
This week is a pair of short webcomic related minicomics. The first, Letters To An Absent Father is just a brief six-pages. Including a bonus page sketch by the author. The rest is a dozen strips featuring Ash of the Pokemon cartoon series writing brief letters to the father never seen or mentioned in the show. The strips have a sadness and poignancy to them adding an unexpected depth to the character. The original online strips...
The second minicomic is Girl Spy, an original story related to John Allison's ended Scary-go-round. Its 24 half-sized pages about Fallon, his sexy super-spy character. Of course Fallon is pretty incompetent, kept in Her Majesty's Special Services because of her ability to fill out a cat-suit. But when the Crime Pope threatens to steal Buckingham Palace and every other agent is on vacation to take advantage of low air fares Fallon is called into action. John Allison's webcomic is quirky and funny and sometimes oddly supernatural. His world is one of spies and robots and aliens and magical creatures and thieves who can steal very large buildings using only a crowbar...
Sunday Trade: Dominic Deegan
Jul. 4th, 2010 10:36 pm
Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire: Seer's Digest by Michael Terracciano
The first collected volume of Michael "Mookie" Terracciano's long-running webcomic. "Seer's Digest" introduces the strips two main characters, Dominic Deegan the grumpy but kind-hearted Seer. And Luna Travoria, a talented mage afflicted with tusks and crushingly low self-esteem. The comic starts out light enough, concentrating on Dominic's frustration and contempt for the majority of his clients. But it quickly gets more serious (well mostly more serious) introducing Luna's mother and her attempts to get her daughter killed. Plus arrogant knights, infernal wizards and really creepy necromancers...
A good deal of long-term set-up takes place in this volume. Future stories involving Dominic's brothers (one a optimistic "White" magic caster, the other that really spooky necromancer), the crazy-ass Chaos cult The Chosen, the Knights of Callan and the demon-tainted Infernomancers. One important warning though. Many of the characters can't seem to resist..punning. *shudder*
New Comics Day 6/16/10
Jun. 16th, 2010 05:02 pmSkimming the new Knights of the Dinner Table reminds me again of a problem I have with many old skool gamers. GM vs. Player attitude. The style of playing where the GM and players are always in an antagonistic state with each other. Why are Brian, Bob and Dave such "terrible" players? Because B.A. has fuckin' taught them to be that way. Maybe its from having them break one too many of his campaigns, but anytime they deviate from the hack-the-monster, scheme for every coin and E.P. method of gaming he screws them. And even when they don't he stacks the deck to screw them in advance. You know what a Total Party Kill should be? A total fuck-up on the GM's part. It means your campaign is derailed if not dead in the water. It means all the investment your players have in their characters is gone. Its a sign that you, as the GM, screwed up!
*mutter mutter mutter*
Right. Less annoying comics. Like Savage Dragon. Where Angela and Malcolm do some teen-ager stuff and Emperor Kurr wrecks some more shit. Plus Golden Age Daredevil!
Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers Unleashed finishes up with the Pet Avengers and their pink unicorn ally taking on a wee little girl. Never turn your back on a wee little girl!
And finally a somewhat weak Fables. With more of Rose Red and Snow White's childhood. Plus more on the whole Snow getting raped nightly by dwarves stuff from the 1001 Nights book. Its..I don't know. I'm just weary of Willingham right now. His comics writing isn't doing a lot for me and his real life commentary is just aggravating...
Hmmm. Don't want to end on a down note. So some new webcomics I've got into in the last week or so. 70 Seas has pirates and religious fights and ninjas and floating islands! Imaginary Monsters is like someone's cracked-out D&D game. And Para-Ten is just so fucking pretty...
*mutter mutter mutter*
Right. Less annoying comics. Like Savage Dragon. Where Angela and Malcolm do some teen-ager stuff and Emperor Kurr wrecks some more shit. Plus Golden Age Daredevil!
Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers Unleashed finishes up with the Pet Avengers and their pink unicorn ally taking on a wee little girl. Never turn your back on a wee little girl!
And finally a somewhat weak Fables. With more of Rose Red and Snow White's childhood. Plus more on the whole Snow getting raped nightly by dwarves stuff from the 1001 Nights book. Its..I don't know. I'm just weary of Willingham right now. His comics writing isn't doing a lot for me and his real life commentary is just aggravating...
Hmmm. Don't want to end on a down note. So some new webcomics I've got into in the last week or so. 70 Seas has pirates and religious fights and ninjas and floating islands! Imaginary Monsters is like someone's cracked-out D&D game. And Para-Ten is just so fucking pretty...
Sunday Trade: Girl Genius
Jun. 13th, 2010 07:19 pm
Girl Genius story by Phil & Kaja Folio, art by Phil Folio with assistance by Brian Snoddy, Mark McNabb & Laurie E. Smith
This pocket-sized black&white omnibus collects the issues that originally ran in normal print. Before the Foglio's realized that trying to sell another floppy on the racks was a sucker's bet and switched to giving it away for free. Which ended up giving them better financial stability...
For those who don't follow the webcomic, Girl Genius is set in a fictional past Europe. One where the main political powers are warring mad geniuses. Or Sparks. The poster child for the Steampunk genre movement at times. Or Gaslamp Fantasy as Kaja Foglio describes it...
The story follows a young student named Agatha Clay. Up until an attempted mugging causes her to lose a family locket, she's never managed to build anything that works. But without it, suddenly the vast and maddening world of the Spark opens up before her. Which leads to her having to deal with robots (or Clanks), talking cats, getting kidnapped by Europes premiere mad overlord and alien monstrosities aboard a city-sized dirigible. And something about a secret destiny and a romance inclined Mad Boy or two...
Haven't posted one of these in awhile
Jun. 12th, 2010 07:53 am
This is going up because holy crap do I wish I had thought of electrical villain Voltaire...
I wonder if Airman Higgs was introduced so that the Foglios could make him a Bosun, just as a really long set-up for a pun? Also how many people I'm infecting by passing out check-out envelopes I've licked...
